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by nzoschke 10y ago
Surprised to see Wal-E only supports GPG for encryption. When backing up to S3, KMS has a ton of advantages. Though in that vein, maybe the native S3 encryption at at rest with KMS is sufficient?
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by nzoschke 10y ago
If you want to deploy to AWS and ECS check out: Convox - https://github.com/convox/rack ECS CLI - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/c... Disclaimer: I work at Co
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by nzoschke 10y ago
It's likely impossible to make volumes shared from the host to the container fast for all use cases. It's also likely impossible to make them work as expected on Windows where the host volume is NTFS and the container is Linux. So
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by nzoschke 10y ago
This is really exciting. The lack of a build service has been apparent for a while: https://convox.com/blog/aws-missing-build-service/ I wrote up how we plan to use this in the Convox platform here: https:/&
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by nzoschke 10y ago
> Another layer to hide the complexity can hardly help. I strongly agree! I'm sensitive to self-serving, but while Convox is another layer, it does make problems disappear by disallowing them. Use Convox and try to boot or deploy a
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Author here. This is collected from notes/comments I've had on some of the other "Docker In Production" articles on HN over the past week. I love the discussion we having going on here. It's how we figure all this o
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by nzoschke 10y ago
I wrote even more thinking about this up in blog form: https://convox.com/blog/docker-in-production/
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Docker in Production for 18 Months(convox.com)
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by nzoschke 10y ago
That's right. GKE is awesome. I highly recommend using the GKE service that over running Kubernetes software on AWS or Digital Ocean.
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience as another cautionary tale. At Convox we have been running Docker in prod for 18 months successfully. The secrets? 1. Don't DIY. Building a custom deployment system with any tech (Docker, Kubernetes,
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Here here. I operate hundreds of ECS clusters and it's great. > The impossible challenge with Docker is to come with a working combination of kernel + distribution + docker version + filesystem. Amazon has met this challenge with th
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by nzoschke 10y ago
I have seen some users file system calls stall due to the EFS quotas. This was on a workload much tougher than WordPress. I haven't run my own NFS for comparison. I recommend reading the NFS v4 spec. AWS has all the pieces to implement
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by nzoschke 10y ago
The ELB is $20/mo. A micro RDS is $12/mo. 3 x t2.micro EC2 instance is $15/month. So you're looking at ~ $50/mo. For a setup that can now scale to any volume independently on the HTTP, compute and database tiers. Ov
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Infrastructure as code offers a lower maintenance cost over time in many scenarios. Sure you can click to set up WordPress on other hosts. But how do you scale capacity of the servers or the database? How do you peer the network to your oth
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by nzoschke 10y ago
This guide is spot on for WordPress on AWS. The persistent and shared EFS volume was the missing piece for running WordPress without frustrating patches. And CloudFormation is the AWS best practice. Convox has a few serious WordPress instal
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by nzoschke 10y ago
You can integrate CloudWatch Alarms to PagerDuty with an SNS webhook. PagerDuty keeps nagging until the CloudWatch Alarm auto-resolves.
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by nzoschke 10y ago
It's not containers, it's AWS. You get CloudWatch events that can turn into alerts for many parts of the platform. With the ECS and ELB/ALB integration, we get paged about downtime and 500s without Nagios.
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Convox founder here. Thanks for the shout out! We are indeed building a private Heroku like platform so you don't have to. It's a simple of layer around AWS so it doesn't add extra craziness some other approaches do. As for t
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Congrats Mackenzie and Dan, big fan of your work and approach to the challenges!
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Nice! This is a really interesting way to approach a job search. I recall a few times in my career when I didn't like the technology choices being made at my current employer, which prompted me to look for new opportunities with the to
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by nzoschke 10y ago
You probably are aware, but AWS has a container orchestration service built into the platform with ECS. The container agent is open source ( https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent ). We're building an open-source p
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Done and done. I was pleasantly surprised to see my ECS tips already linked. I hope I can remix this knowledge for the guide! https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/
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by nzoschke 10y ago
This is great. I've been working on AWS for close to 10 years now and an open guide is something I both need and want to contribute to. Many of us have simple goals on AWS. The official AWS docs are thorough, but are too technical. The
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Fanstatic article, that gets the subtleties correct. This is my favorite part: > If we see the gap of management and scaling between Serverless FaaS and hosted containers narrow the choice between them may just come down to style, and ty
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AWS Missing Parts: Build Service(convox.com)
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by nzoschke 10y ago
EFS on AWS is an interesting approach. It's a NFS mount that every instance and every container can share. I wouldn't run a database off it but it's been great for simple file synchronization across containers and container r
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by nzoschke 10y ago
I respectfully disagree. When running on AWS you want CloudFormation controlling an AutoScaling Group for this.
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by nzoschke 10y ago
This is a great write up, thanks for sharing the lessons learned. I wonder if the open questions about instance management are solved by the "Docker for AWS" beta. We are entering the commodity phase for orchestration software. Bl
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by nzoschke 10y ago
Automating VMs with Elastic Beanstalk and deploying to a platform like Heroku are effectively solved problems. Container orchestration brings in new challenges like operating a consensus database, managing data volumes and load balancing. A
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by nzoschke 10y ago
These articles never mention the elephant in the room, AWS. How many containers are running on Elastic Beanstalk and ECS? I'd wager magnitudes more are running containers by reading the docs and clicking around than those that masterin

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